Professor Ali Mazurui wrote it all in his seminal work titled: “The African
Bigman”. And by this, I think he meant to refer to those Africans who inherited
the elite dynamics and dialectics of the departing Colonial Masters, and who
always want to act similarly in their colonial-mentalities and ways of doing
things.
Also, methinks he was also referring to those emerging and emerged African elites in their countries after independence, who lack humility in all they do, especially because of their belief that they have attained high societal positions that gives them the leverage to flaunt their kind of attitudes (and therein knowingly and unknowingly trample on the less privileged).
Yes! There is what could be regarded as “African Bigman
Syndrome”; which emanates truly from “Colonial Mentality”; whose roots is
surely, as we earlier said, from “Colonial Mental Attitude”.
